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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 14, 2022

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Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, on May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

After international outcry, police open probe into violence at reporter’s funeral

Police say officers were ‘exposed to violence’ and ‘subsequently’ used force; images of Shireen Abu Akleh’s casket almost toppling drew widespread condemnation

Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in east Jerusalem, on May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

US ‘deeply disturbed’ by images of police beating funeral participants; EU appalled

By Jacob Magid, Aaron Boxerman and Agencies

Police beat participants at funeral for Al Jazeera journalist, say mob seized casket

By Aaron Boxerman

Some mourners sought to carry Shireen Abu Akleh’s casket on foot, cops intervened violently; Abu Akleh, 51, killed during Jenin clashes, was widely beloved by Palestinians

Israeli police confront mourners as they carry the casket of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, almost toppling it, outside Saint Joseph's Hospital during her funeral in Jerusalem, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

Police claim officers intervened in funeral after rioters seized reporter’s coffin

Protesters hold candles and a photo of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed while covering clashes between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen during an IDF raid in Jenin, in Haifa on May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

PA: International groups can participate in probe into reporter’s death, not Israel

Palestinian official says groups can ‘communicate’ with prosecutors, doesn’t detail extent of participation; says violence at Abu Akleh’s funeral underlines why Israel can’t join

Israeli soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank city of Jenin on May 13, 2022. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Israel said to tell US it can’t rule on reporter’s death unless it has the bullet

Reporter's Notebook

Scenes from one part of a funeral, as Shireen Abu Akleh is laid to rest in Jerusalem

A lurching casket, rough arrests, a bouncy castle at a Queen’s Jubilee party across the street, and T-shirts showing a type of rifle from which the fatal bullet may have been fired

Mourners carry the casket of slain Al Jazeera veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during her funeral in Jerusalem's Old City, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

US President Joe Biden hosts Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House on May 13, 2022. (Royal Hashemite Court)

Hosting king, Biden affirms Jordanian role overseeing Muslim sites in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AP

White House voices support for maintaining Temple Mount status quo after Jordanian monarch visits, as tensions climb between Amman and Jerusalem

Police commando Sgt. Maj. Noam Raz, 47, who was killed in an operation in Jenin on May 13, 2022. (Police)

‘One of the best’: Officers, officials mourn death of police commando Noam Raz

Veteran counterterrorism officer killed in clashes near Jenin; leaves behind a wife and six children; PM vows to continue to fight terrorism with an iron fist

Gen Z must be at the frontlines in the fight against antisemitism

After the shooting at my grandmother’s synagogue, I rethought my Judaism: I cannot sit on the sidelines while Jews are being attacked for being Jewish

Trying to make sense of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death

Firefights are furious, chaotic, and you can’t hear much. You peek out, let off a shot, and get back behind cover fast. Which is exactly why this needs a serious investigation

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on November 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Crown prince, longtime de facto ruler Mohamed bin Zayed elected UAE president

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Succeeds half-brother Sheikh Khalifa day after his death; MBZ led push for Gulf nation’s normalization with Israel

In this file photo taken in 2021, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan looks on as he attends a signing ceremony with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. (Adem Altan/AFP)

ProfileMohamed bin Zayed, a quiet force to lead UAE as a regional player

By AFP

Matan Kahana resigns Religious Affairs Ministry to ‘help strengthen the coalition’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and Shalom Yerushalmi

Move will see Kahana returning to Knesset as an MK, bumping out Yomtob Kalfon who it was feared might be the next Yamina member to quit teetering government

Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, speaks with his foreign policy adviser Shimrit Meir at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shimrit Meir, top aide to Bennett, resigns after one year in position

By Michael Horovitz and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Israeli police take Walid a-Sharif, a Palestinian demonstrator critically hurt during clashes, from Jerusalem's Temple Mount on April 22, 2022, from where he was taken to Hadassah hospital. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Palestinian dies of wounds sustained in recent Temple Mount clashes

By Emanuel Fabian

Family says Walid a-Sharif, 21, was critically injured when he was hit by a sponge-tipped bullet on April 22; police say he fell and hit his head while throwing rocks

A knife and a rock found on a Palestinian suspect near the Israeli town of Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel, May 13, 2022. (Israel Police)

Armed Palestinian who sought to commit attack arrested near central town — police

By Emanuel Fabian

Then-Joint List Knesset member Ofer Cassif appears to hit a police officer in the West Bank on May 13, 2022. (Screenshot)

Joint List MK hits officer after being stopped from reaching West Bank protest

Police open inquiry after Ofer Cassif strikes officer, then accuses cop of attacking first during altercation near Hebron

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh (Hadash) at a Knesset faction meeting on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List MK tried to pay hospital visit to terrorist shot in Jenin clash – report

Illustrative: An injured Palestinian is evacuated by ambulance during clashes with Israeli soldiers after troops searched and measured family house of Omar al-Abed, 20, perpetrator of Friday's attack at the West Bank settlement of Halamish, in preparation for demolition, in the West Bank village of Kobar, near Ramallah, July 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Terrorist critically injured in Jenin clashes transferred to Israeli hospital

A view of construction work in the Jewish settlement of Givat Ze'ev, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, in the West Bank on May 10, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabali/AFP)

European nations urge Israel to scrap plans for new settlement homes

By AFP and ToI Staff

In joint statement, 15 countries say construction of over 4,000 planned units ‘would constitute an additional obstacle to the two-state solution’

Rabbi Michael Harvey, and the offending tweet he said he wrote out of anger. (Courtesy via JTA)

A rabbi who ‘speaks to Christians’ condemned them on Twitter. It cost him his job

By Andrew Lapin

Series of posts about abortion by Rabbi Michael Harvey ignite controversy; he says white nationalists posted some of them after hacking his account

An elderly woman walks inside a metro station being used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukraine says Russian troops pushed out of Kharkiv as war enters ‘long-term’ phase

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and david keyton

Meanwhile, Russia’s offensive in Donbas appears to be turning into a village-by-village, back-and-forth fight with no major breakthroughs on either side

US group rushes to aid 15 Righteous Among Nations in Ukraine after Russia invasion

Turkey breaks with rest of NATO to oppose membership for Finland, Sweden

By Fulya Ozerkan

Ukraine inflicts huge losses on Russians during failed river crossing, officials say

By david keyton and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI

A fireball rises after an alleged airstrike near the Syrian city of Masyaf, on May 13, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Syria says five killed, 7 hurt in Israeli airstrikes in northwest

By Emanuel Fabian

State media claims a large number of missiles launched by jets over Masyaf; footage shows fire at site in area thought controlled by Iran-backed forces

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell attends a plenary session titled 'Transforming for a New Era,' during the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital, on March 26, 2022. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

EU claims stalled Iran talks ‘reopened’ after envoy’s Tehran visit

By AFP

A homeless woman sits in front of campaign posters for a candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Beirut, Lebanon, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Parliamentary elections seen as last chance for crisis-plagued Lebanon

Susan Burns, curator at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem points to the opening of Herzl's 'Altneuland,' on May 9, 2022. (Screen grab/Channel 13)

Handwritten manuscript of Herzl’s utopian ‘Altneuland’ on display for first time

By Michael Horovitz

Each of the 396 pages is insured for NIS 1 million; curator says father of Zionism’s vision of modern Israel, with light rail and electronic newspapers, is part ‘prophecy’

K.M. DiColandrea, who goes by DiCo, reads from the Torah at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn. (Courtesy of DiColandrea/ via JTA)

Interview'I was hoping to get paid back, but this is amazing'

$1.2 million raised for ex-rabbinical student’s nonprofit after Humans of NY story

By PHILISSA CRAMER

K.M. DiColandrea’s story of weathering a family illness, coming out as trans and converting to Judaism strikes a chord, and readers donate to his grassroots student debate league

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Shimon Peres with Uri Savir (Hanania Hermon / GPO)

Uri Savir, chief peace negotiator of Oslo Accords, dies at 69

Illustrative: A US passport. (vlana/iStock/Getty Images)

US Embassy in Jerusalem to hold walk-in day for children’s passport services May 19

An MDA motorbike at the scene of the murder in Acre, on May 13, 2022. (Courtesty of MDA)

20-year-old man shot and killed on Acre street in broad daylight

By Michael Horovitz

Cheese production at the Tnuva Tel Yosef dairy plant. December 21, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

After Strauss recall, salmonella found at Tnuva factory as well

By Tobias Siegal

Scene for 'This is Spinal Tap'. (Screen grab/YouTube)

Turn it up to 11Sequel to ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ in the works with original cast

By Michael Horovitz

An armed policeman stands guard in front of the synagogue in Seitenstettengasse in Vienna on November 3, 2020, one day after the shootings nearby and at multiple locations across central Vienna. (Hans Punz/APA/AFP)

Nearly 1,000 antisemitic incidents in Austria in 2021, Jewish community group says

By AP

A screenshot from Camp Ramah New England's Facebook page shows Rabbi Ethan Linden (center) two days after the lawsuit against him was filed. (Screenshot from Facebook/JTA)

Camp Ramah director on leave amid allegations he mishandled sexual assault complaint

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Viktoria Leléka, lead singer of Leleka, performed at the Euro Party with Israeli pop star Ivri Lider on May 12, 2022, sponsored by the European Union Delegation to the State of Israel (Courtesy: European Union Delegation to the State of Israel)

NoteworthyUkrainian singer performs in Israel alongside star Ivri Lider

By Jessica Steinberg

CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Delaware, July 13, 2021. (AP/Matt Rourke, File)

Elon Musk says he put $44 billion Twitter deal on hold over fake accounts

By Kelvin Chan and Tom Krisher

A customer makes a purchase at a a Starbucks coffee shop, in Philadelphia, April 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Interfaith leaders demand Starbucks stop ‘taxing’ vegans with milk surcharge

By AP

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